WooCommerce Tips

WooCommerce: Sort Cart Items Alphabetically A>Z

Your WooCommerce shopping cart might look messy when it contains many products. Your specific business, besides, might require you buy “Part 1” first and “Part 2” after.

A way to tidy up the WooCommerce shopping basket is – for example – to sort products based on their title, from A to Z. As usual, this can be done with a few lines of PHP, even if you have no clue about coding… feel free to copy, paste, and enjoy the snippet 🙂

Sort WooCommerce Cart Products Alphabetically

PHP Snippet: Sort Products Alphabetically @ WooCommerce Cart

/**
* @snippet       Sort Products Alphabetically @ WooCommerce Cart
* @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
* @author        Rodolfo Melogli
* @testedwith    Woo 3.7
* @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
*/

add_action( 'woocommerce_cart_loaded_from_session', 'bbloomer_sort_cart_items_alphabetically' );

function bbloomer_sort_cart_items_alphabetically() {

// READ CART ITEMS
$products_in_cart = array();
foreach ( WC()->cart->get_cart_contents() as $key => $item ) {
$products_in_cart[ $key ] = $item['data']->get_title();
}

// SORT CART ITEMS
natsort( $products_in_cart );

// ASSIGN SORTED ITEMS TO CART
$cart_contents = array();
foreach ( $products_in_cart as $cart_key => $product_title ) {
$cart_contents[ $cart_key ] = WC()->cart->cart_contents[ $cart_key ];
}
WC()->cart->cart_contents = $cart_contents;

}

Where to add custom code?

You should place custom PHP in functions.php and custom CSS in style.css of your child theme: where to place WooCommerce customization?

This code still works, unless you report otherwise. To exclude conflicts, temporarily switch to the Storefront theme, disable all plugins except WooCommerce, and test the snippet again: WooCommerce troubleshooting 101

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Rodolfo Melogli

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Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza. Follow @rmelogli

16 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Sort Cart Items Alphabetically A>Z”

  1. Rafael

    Hi Rodolfo,
    Thanks for this snippet! It worked like a charm!
    May I ask for your help to do the same on the order received page?
    It seems it uses a different hook and I couldn’t find out how to make this work.
    Thanks in advance!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Rafael, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  2. rio

    Hi,
    Is it possible to sort the order item name and by line_total?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Rio, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  3. Sam Still

    Hi there, how would i go about if i wanted to order by categories for example a restaurant might want starters to be at the top and mains after so that it is organised. Love to hear back from you.

    Regards Sam

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Sam, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  4. David

    Is possible to sort the product as [AaBbCc] instead of [ABCabc]?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hello David, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  5. Gerry

    Would you know how to change this to order by product category? I’ve made a few attempts, but I am not very familiar with woocommerce coding.

    Thanks to anyone who can help.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hello Gerry – thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is possible – but unfortunately this is custom work and I cannot provide a complementary solution here via the blog comments. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R

      Reply
  6. Daniel pallares

    Hi!
    Last year I was looking for something like this, only shorted by Id or Shipping, it’s easy to change to any other data.
    Thank you so much!!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Excellent 🙂

      Reply
  7. Roberta

    It works!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Yay 🙂

      Reply
  8. Nick Ginargiros

    Hi Rodolfo,

    Thank you for your code snippet.

    It worked like a charm!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Excellent, thank you Nick 🙂

      Reply
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